by Gavin Wright | Interviews, Season 1
Kidada speaks with Princeton historian Tera Hunter about how Black workers wanted to shape their working lives after the Civil War, what communal labor looked like, and what activities they found joy in. View Transcript Kidada Williams: Hi everyone, It’s Kidada....
by Gavin Wright | Narratives, Season 1
As African Americans ventured into entrepreneurship following emancipation, their success was met with overwhelming vitriol and violence from their white counterparts throughout the nation, resulting in Black Codes that make their advances toward equality all the more...
by Gavin Wright | Interviews, Season 1
Kidada chats with acclaimed musician and musical scholar Rhiannon Giddens about her introduction to music, how she finds inspiration in the historical archives to create her songs and how there is more than one way to experience blackness in music. View Transcript...
by Gavin Wright | Narratives, Season 1
Following the Emancipation Proclamation and Sherman’s Special Field Orders #15 (known commonly by the phrase “40 acres and a mule” contained therein), tens of thousands of formerly enslaved people began establishing communities where they could build livelihoods for...
by Gavin Wright | Interviews, Season 1
Kidada and acclaimed historian of photography Deborah Willis discuss the variety of stories we can take from photographs of Black Civil War soldiers and other African Americans during the era of Reconstruction, and look at how imagery can convey different information...
by Gavin Wright | Narratives, Season 1
Finding and rebuilding families was one of the first steps Black Americans took toward social and political freedom following the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. But with families intentionally broken apart by the American slave system and no organized records of...
by Gavin Wright | Interviews, Season 1
Kidada and Abigail discuss how African Americans built their own communities within Civil War refugee camps, as well as their relationship to African traditions and the introduction of Christianity by white missionaries. View Transcript Kidada Williams: Hi everyone,...
by Gavin Wright | Narratives, Season 1
Prior to the Civil War, runaway slaves who were captured in Union territory would have been returned to their enslavers as a result of the Fugitive Slave Law. But a bold decision by a Union general in 1861 sanctioned the escape of freedom seekers into Union refugee...
